1st Edition
The Wellbeing of Children in Care A New Approach for Improving Developmental Outcomes
By Kwame Owusu-Bempah
Copyright 2010
194 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
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Because of their previous damaging experiences, many children and young people enter the care system having already developed emotional problems or at a greater risk of developing them. However, in addition to this, research and experience consistently show that being in care is likely to aggravate or worsen developmental problems. Why does public care have these negative effects on children and... Read more
Selected Contents: 1. Fostering and adoption in historical perspective, 2. Fostering: cross-cultural perspective, 3. Fostering in contemporary Western societies, 4. Motives for fostering, 5. Public care and kinship care, 6. Public care versus kinship care: psycho-social developmental outcomes, 7. In the interest of the child: kinship care, 8. Policy, practice and research implications
Biography
Kwame Owusu-Bempah is Emeritus Reader in Psychology at the University of Leicester, UK.
‘A valuable resource for anyone interested in or involved in human service.’ – Choice
